Ratchet & Clank movie coming to cinemas in 2015, see the first trailer

One of the biggest questions we’ve gotten in the last few years is “When are you going to make a Ratchet & Clank movie?” The truth is, we’ve wanted to do a movie for a long time! Ratchet & Clank’s action, humor and galaxy-spanning adventures have really been the basis for a fantastic game series, and we think it’d translate perfectly to the big screen.

We’ve been looking for the right partner to help us bring a Ratchet & Clank movie to life, and we’re thrilled to announce that Blockade Entertainment and Rainmaker Entertainment are currently in production on Ratchet & Clank’s first cinematic adventure.

Insomniac is honored to play a hands-on role with the film’s production, screenplay, character development, and animation consulting. Furthermore, our own Ratchet & Clank writer, T.J. Fixman, who has written all of the recent Ratchet & Clank games, is writing the script for the film as well.

But don’t take my word for it – check out our teaser above.

We know you’re still patiently waiting for Ratchet & Clank: QForce PS Vita and Ratchet: Deadlocked. While we don’t have any news to share today, stay tuned, we’ll update you soon.

There will be much to come on the Ratchet & Clank movie as we get farther into production and closer to its release. Thanks for all your support of the franchise over the last 10 years, without you, there wouldn’t be a movie!

I shrudder when I think of game inspired movies, to this day Advent children is still the number one example of how to do it in my opinion. It should be authentic (CGI, no live action!!!) and the characters should be represented by their respective voiceactors.
Dare I hope for this? It certainly seems to be headed the right way.
Can’t wait for another traditional R&C game either!

wrong people for those 2,games OrhuN_06 you need to ask at a differnt blog, staying n that subject I thought you might have had some moans on this q force vita issue but I know its not you fault as tin giant are the ones we need moan at, I better keep my eyes open for the date of the movie

The only thing i want, is that they’re able to contain this sense of humour, combined with the epic story telling of R&C3. Also that it got a connection to the past events in the games, hopefully as far back as the original R&C. It would be awesome if they’re able to create flashbacks to the PS2 titles.

This is great news! but please please just continue the great Ratchet & Clank series’ story because no offence but R&C A crack in time’s story and character development would be extremely hard to top. Also please make sure to have Insommiac check everything because the last thing the movie would need is characters doing things they would not normally do. But anyway can’t wait to see more trailers as I am a big R&C fan 🙂

Oooh, God, no. That was painful. Usually I’m up to Sony’s little “projects” but this is just too much. When you’ve got IP’s like inFAMOUS, Uncharted and Killzone, you don’t just make a Ratchet and Clank movie. I find that the humor was trying way too hard, and trying to fit way too much “comedy” into a few measily seconds. And the self-referential humor just takes the cake for being over-done and self-gratifying.

Let’s hope R&C have got enough figures of 8 in their fans to pay for this movie, because I don’t think it will attract much attention from non-gaming audiences. And considering the people who “have supported the franchise from the start” have moved on to, well, growing up, I doubt they’re going to be bothered seeing what looks like generic kids film 2013.

And I’m not too thrilled about the company having a large history in Barbie and Hot Wheels/Tony Hawk movies. And I’m pretty sure they’ve got dozens of throw-away titles in their history too. I’m not sold on this at all.

@extermin8or_ did you check yesterday under Certainy post, we *hopefully* get news later this week and it will also trigger another blog post, also i noted that two people on the US side missed the bit that says no news today on q force vita

Rainmaker also made Reboot, if you’re lucky enough to remember that awesome show.

I’ll be interested to see how this does, R&C has always had good writing, and it looks like nothing has changed visually (it might be higher res, but it’s not live-action, for instance). It’s also one of the few mascot games I can think of that has strong enough characters to hold a feature film. So, could we be seeing the first good game-to-movie translation?

As well as Reboot, the studio (back when they were called Mainframe) was also responsible for Beast Wars, which most fans have said was the strongest of the Transformers television shows that have been produced and was the most innovative visually at the time.

Cast wise, looks like they’re sticking to the usual game cast as well – it’s definitely David Kaye still playing Clank in the trailer (and he worked with the studio before with Beast Wars anyway) and while he’s based in Los Angeles most of the time, he’s also got a base in Vancouver.

Going by their track record, I think it’s in pretty safe hands and I can’t wait! 🙂